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-- Solt, J., Mailloux, A., Dinet, J., Da Silva, S.F., Kitajima, M., Nicolas, G. (2024)Solt, J., Mailloux, A., Dinet, J., Da Silva, S.F., Kitajima, M., Nicolas, G. (2024). Development of Children's Crossing Skills in Urban Area: Impact of Age and Traffic Density on Visual Exploration. COGNITIVE 2024 : The Sixteenth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications, 12-20.
Development of Children's Crossing Skills in Urban Area: Impact of Age and Traffic Density on Visual ExplorationPedestrian trauma represents a significant proportion of all road traumas, young pedestrian being over-represented in all these road traumas. From a cognitive point of view, road crossing ability is a high and complex mental activity because the individual has to process dynamic and complex information extracted from his/her surrounding environment, to make a decision (i.e., where and how to cross), and safe pedestrians must possess and utilize advanced cognitive skills. More precisely, there are two major problems for young pedestrians to make the decision about when and where it is safe to cross the street : gap selection and assessment of inter-vehicular gap. An experimental study conducted with forty children aged 3-10 years and twenty-two adults has been conducted to investigate the impact of one individual factor (Age) and one environmental factor (Traffic density) on decision making (i.e., "to cross" or "not to cross a street"), time spent to make decision (in milliseconds) and on visual exploration using eye-tracking techniques of urban scenes displayed on a computerized screen. Main results showed that (i) Traffic density has a significant impact on performance and visual exploration, (ii) Age has a significant impact on time spent to make decision and visual exploration and (iii) there is an interaction between Age and Traffic density. In section 1, context related to accidents with young pedestrians and factors influencing children's crossing skills are presented. In section 2, method of the experiment conducted with our participants are described. Finally, in section 3, theoretical and methodological implications related to the changes in visual strategy occurring around the age of 7-8 years are discussed. Download
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